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Automated Plant Species Identification: Challenges and Opportunities

Authors : Erick Mata-Montero, Jose Carranza-Rojas

Published in: ICT for Promoting Human Development and Protecting the Environment

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The number of species of macro organisms on the planet is estimated at about 10 million. This staggering diversity and the need to better understand it led inevitably to the development of classification schemes called biological taxonomies. Unfortunately, in addition to this enormous diversity, the traditional identification and classification workflows are both slow and error-prone; classification expertise is in the hands of a small number of expert taxonomists; and to make things worse, the number of taxonomists has steadily declined in recent years. Automated identification of organisms has therefore become not just a long time desire but a need to better understand, use, and save biodiversity. This paper presents a survey of recent efforts to use computer vision and machine learning techniques to identify organisms. It focuses on the use of leaf images to identify plant species. In addition, it presents the main technical and scientific challenges as well as the opportunities for herbaria and cybertaxonomists to take a quantum leap towards identifying biodiversity efficiently and empowering the general public by putting in their hands automated identification tools.

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Metadata
Title
Automated Plant Species Identification: Challenges and Opportunities
Authors
Erick Mata-Montero
Jose Carranza-Rojas
Copyright Year
2016
Book
ICT for Promoting Human Development and Protecting the Environment

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-44446-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-44447-5

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44447-5_3

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